How big is the coin market?
MrEureka
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For example, how many people in the world have or are trying to put together a 50 piece type set of slabbed gem (65 or better) silver commems? I'd guess 400 people.
Now it's your turn. Pick a series and tell us how many people you think are collecting it.
Now it's your turn. Pick a series and tell us how many people you think are collecting it.
Andy Lustig
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
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For a gem MS Barbers: 20 halves, 10 quarters, 20 dimes.
For choice-gem seated sets by date: 5 halves, 2 quarters, 3 dimes.
choice to gem MS Morgans: 100
seated dollar sets: 2 (we know who)
roadrunner
Oh, no I just realized I'll have no one to sell my coins to when I'm done with the set.
Michael
More than 100
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<< <i>Hard to say how many serious Morgan collectors are still active right now. I imagine there are a few sets from the past that are not being upgraded and how many of these are mint state is anyone's guess. The market is quite active and brisk but where the hell are they all going to? >>
I think there's a whole lot more new collectors than is given credit for. And allot of the new collectors are in "catch up" mode and buying a whole lot of them.
MS65 Twenty-Cent Pieces for all dates/mint. 10
MS64 or better 10-20
MS any grade 20-50
Mid grade and AU only 50-100
VG and below (junk coins)1000-2000
<< <i>I think there's a whole lot more new collectors than is given credit for. And allot of the new collectors are in "catch up" mode and buying a whole lot of them. >>
The number of full sets of Morgans is limted to how many 1893-s coins are out there at 1 per set. Sheesh there are more 81-s in ms66 than there are 93-s in ALL grades.
A local gent who used to run a coin store once told me that he had a complete set ( raw I presume) of Morgans in ms63 so if thats true how many others like that are squirreled away!!
I believe it is these entry level coin collectors that has created the solid foundation for the current bull market.
NJ Coppers by Die Variety: 50
WallStreetMan - IF the market is as small as most people are guessing, there's lots of room for growth. Especially in a country of 300 million increasingly affluent people.
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<< <i>Capped Bust Half-Dimes by Die Marriage - I'd say probally less than 50 - and you can count me as one of them
Me too, although, im not as informed as you yet, lol. Im working on it though.
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While there may not be 100 type collectors who are building MS65 sets...and need an MS65-67 barber half....there are thousands of dealers, collectors, and investors/speculators who wouldn't mind having one if offered up.
roadrunner
There were probably only a few thousand people attempting these sets on other levels.
Today there are probably close to a hundred pretty serious collectors and several thousand
interested enough to try to work a set and upgrade it as possible. There are probably anot-
her 100,000 collecting them from circulation and 10,000,000 working on just the states issues.
coins for the beauty of them. While I have a number of Seated Lib quarters and half dollars in PR and MS
as well as Barber quarters and Half dollars in PR and MS as well as 25 Classic Commems, I will never compleate
a set. Only God knows how many of us there are.
Camelot
<< <i>Pick a series and tell us how many people you think are collecting it. >>
Buffalo nickels - 281 collectors
There are more than 500 collectors of MS Buffalos and probably way more than 5000 for circs.
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Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.
Lincolns - Way out on a limb here with wild guesses
"Wheat Penny collectors" - Hundreds of thousands
Whitman Board "Hole Fillers" - Thousands
Slabbed Lincoln collectors - Hundreds
Hard Core Lincoln colectors - 50-100
Secretly wish they could dethrone Stewart (and are trying) - 10
I'm basing my estimates on the collectors I know, the dealers I know serving collectors I don't know, and an extrapolation of their numbers to reflect the percentage of people I don't know. I also use slabbed populations and market availability as reality checks. My guesses aren't reliable, of course, but on average I'd bet they're in the ballpark.
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